foreign policy is something you can do without running to congress for permission ever day. >> ah. it's the can when you can't do other things. >> indeed. >> they're always from history. in terms of the president looking ahead at six to eight months, what they're telegraphing right now from the white house is that the heavy lift they're going to ask for is a variety of measures related to gun violence. because it is a variety of measures, i think they mean it to be treated as a grab bag. but eight package of immigration reform that cannot be broken into its component parts. is that the kind of heavy lift that you might expect might be feasible at the start of a second term? >> very much so. i think he tried to build up his capital today. he did win the election. and i think the lbj example is not bad one, because during those first six months of 1965, medicare, education, voting rights, all the things that we think of really as the great society didn't happen across four years, really just in that first half of one year. the fact that johnson was asking for all those big things tog